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SubjectRe: [PATCH -V6 08/26] vfs: Add new file and directory create permission flags
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On Fri, 09 Sep 2011 11:02:58 +0100, David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> wrote:
> Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> > -static inline int may_create(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *child)
> > +static inline int may_create(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *child, int isdir)
>
> Would it make sense to pass the proposed mode_t instead? That way you can
> check for symlinks and other file types too if necessary later.
>

How about making that change when we need to check for those file types
?. Currently we need to check only if it is a directory or not, and most
of the callers and simply use 1, 0, converting it to mode_t would mean
we build proper mode values there.

-aneesh


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